id: 97141 accession number: 1916.780 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.780 updated: 2024-03-26 01:56:19.894000 Sketch for a Ceiling, 1750s. Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Italian, 1696–1770). Oil on canvas; framed: 51.5 x 43 x 6.5 cm (20 1/4 x 16 15/16 x 2 9/16 in.); unframed: 41 x 34 cm (16 1/8 x 13 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Holden Collection 1916.780 title: Sketch for a Ceiling title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1750s creation date earliest: 1750 creation date latest: 1759 current location: creditline: Holden Collection copyright: --- culture: Italy, 18th century technique: oil on canvas department: European Painting and Sculpture collection: P - Italian 18th Century type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Italian, 1696–1770) - artist --- measurements: Framed: 51.5 x 43 x 6.5 cm (20 1/4 x 16 15/16 x 2 9/16 in.); Unframed: 41 x 34 cm (16 1/8 x 13 3/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Inaugural Exhibition opening date: 1916-06-06T05:00:00 Inaugural Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (co-organizer) (June 6-September 20, 1916). title: Art of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries opening date: 1934-11-09T05:00:00 Art of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 9-December 2, 1934). title: The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition opening date: 1936-06-26T04:00:00 The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 26-October 4, 1936). title: The Tiepolos: Painters to Princes and Prelates opening date: 1978-01-08T05:00:00 The Tiepolos: Painters to Princes and Prelates. Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL (organizer) (January 8-February 19, 1978); Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, OH, Springfield, OH (March 19-May 7, 1978). title: Idea to Image: Preparatory Studies from the Renaissance to Impressionism opening date: 1980-02-19T05:00:00 Idea to Image: Preparatory Studies from the Renaissance to Impressionism. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 19-March 23, 1980). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1912: "Loan Exhibition of the Holden Collection," catalogue: Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, vII, no.10 (October 1912), cat. no. 26 (author, bryson Burroughs).', 'opening_date': '1912-10-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'CMA, 1916: "The Inaugrual Exhibition of CMA," cat. no. 37.', 'opening_date': '1916-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'CMA, 1936: "The Twentieth Anniversry Exhibition," cat. no. 37.', 'opening_date': '1936-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'CMA, 1936: "The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition" cat. no. 108.', 'opening_date': '1936-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Birmingham, Alabama, Museum of Fine Art, 1978: "The Tiepolos, Painters to Princes and Prelates," ct. no. 22, illus. p. 79; Springfield (Mass.) Museum of Fine Arts,', 'opening_date': '1978-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Oberlin, OH, Allen Memorial Art Museum, October 29-December 15, 1991: "Artin the Age of Mozart,"', 'opening_date': '1991-10-29T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Miner K. Kellogg (1814-1889), Paris date: 1858 footnotes: citations: Mrs. Liberty E. Holden date: 1884 footnotes: citations: Holden Collection date: 1916 footnotes: citations: 1858 Miner K. Kellogg, 1814-1889 (Paris, France) date: footnotes: citations: 1884-1916 Mrs.Liberty E. Holden (Cleveland, Ohio), by gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1916. date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982. page number: Reproduced: p. 424; Mentioned: p. 425 url: Rubinstein-Bloch, Stella. Catalogue of a Collection of Paintings, Etc. Presented by Mrs. Liberty E. Holden to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1917. page number: Mentioned: p. 35-36, cat. no. 38 url: https://archive.org/details/Holden_80856/page/n45 Johnson, Mark M. Idea to Image: Preparatory Studies from the Renaissance to Impressionism. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1980. page number: Referenced: cat. no. 85, p 69, Reproduced url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.780/1916.780_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.780/1916.780_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.780/1916.780_full.tif